Santo Domingo.- The Ministry of Culture announced that a select group of writers from 18 countries will be present at the Santo Domingo 2024 International Book Fair, which will be held from November 7 to 17 with the motto “Books connect.”
In a press release, the institution reported that award-winning novelists, essayists, short stories, poets and authors belonging to other literary genres will participate in an extensive program of activities that will take place in the Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte and in other settings in the territory. national.
The most important event around books and reading that takes place in the Dominican Republic will have a special dedication to the Dominican poet Mateo Morrison, and the Washington Heights community will be the guest of honor in this edition.
The participating writers
The large group of intellectuals comes from Spain, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Italy, United States, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Portugal, Venezuela, Peru, Bulgaria and Angola.
FILSD 2024 will be attended by Luis García Montero, famous poet, literary critic, essayist and professor of literature at the University of Granada, and winner of the Carlos Fuentes International Prize.
Likewise, Ana María Shua, an outstanding Argentine writer, journalist and screenwriter, winner of important awards, such as the Konex Platinum Award (2014), the National Short Story Award (2014) and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature, will visit us. from the Association of Argentine Award-Winning Artists (2015).
The institution has also confirmed the attendance of the Mexican intellectual David Toscana, who received the Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize, one of the most important literary awards in Latin America.
Also from Mexico, Natalia Toledo, one of the greatest references in indigenous American literature, will be present at the event. Author of several bilingual books, including “Olivo negro” and “El dorso del cuerpo”, she won the Nezahualcóyotl National Literature Prize in 2004.
The select Latin American representation includes Vera Grabe Loewenherz, a prominent Colombian writer, anthropologist and politician. She was a co-founder and one of the leaders of the M-19 guerrilla group, in which she served for 16 years until the peace process of 1990. She is the author of “Reasons of life/The silence of my cello” (2000) and “The peace as revolution. M-19” (2017).
As part of the European representation, Bruno Arpaia, a well-known Italian novelist and journalist, will participate. He has garnered numerous recognitions throughout his career, such as the 1997 Hammett Italia Prize for “Lost Time”; the Selezione Campiello 2001, and the Alassio Centolibri-Un autore per l’Europa 2001 for “L’angelo della storia”, among others.
From Spain, the award-winning writer Cristina Fernández Cubas will arrive, considered one of the best short story writers in that country. She is the author of “My Sister Elba” (1980), “The Altillos of Brumal” (1983), “The Angle of Horror” (1990) and “The Year of Grace” (1985), among other texts. He has also cultivated the theatrical genre with “Blood Sisters” (1998), and in 2001 he published his memoirs, “Cosas que no ya existen”, which won the NH Short Story Award.
Other prominent writers who will meet at FILSD 2024 are the Puerto Rican writer and visual artist Eduardo Lalo, the Spanish author of novels, poetry, short stories, theater and essays Bernando Atxaga, and the Colombian Jorge Franco Ramos (known mainly for his novel “ Rosario Scissors”).
Also, the Mexican poet Mario Bojórquez; the historian and writer Alfonso Mateo Sagasta; the writer, translator and journalist José Manuel Fajardo; the Chilean poet Carmen Yáñez; the Cuban author of stories, novels and travel chronicles Karla Suárez; and the New York-born Puerto Rican writer Helena Sampedro, among others.
To access more information about the most significant literary event in the Dominican Republic, the public can consult the Ministry of Culture portal www.cultura.gob.do and the institution’s social networks.
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